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trombone days
beer rained in the bar & that was the first time either of us dared to smile at each other.
Feb 6
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Grace Kwan
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thea & orion
She especially loved witnessing women’s rage. It scratched a psychological itch that sex never did.
Jan 26
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Grace Kwan
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my massage therapist saw a little too much
he pressed his fingers into one spot, and another muscle would buck, like a piano whose keys all played the wrong notes.
Jan 16
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Grace Kwan
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contents may have shifted
Sun and moon in the same sky, an eclipse of dark hair and golden glow.
Jan 5
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Grace Kwan
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hunger
Sometimes I don’t say sorry
Dec 19, 2025
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Grace Kwan
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the unbearable weight of being
“My halmeoni says I have bad karma from a past life.”
Dec 8, 2025
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Grace Kwan
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litany mistaking death for language
like the ocean says to the river
Nov 28, 2025
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Grace Kwan
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v. afternoons with sisyphus
25 years of inhabiting this world all wrong, this body all wrong. Even breathing can be an arduous task.
Nov 17, 2025
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Grace Kwan
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the language of lists
A list can describe a life in a paragraph.
Nov 7, 2025
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Grace Kwan
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iv. a spine shaped by years
They don’t think twice about all these little things, which are simply as much a part of them as their hearts and lungs.
Oct 24, 2025
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Grace Kwan
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fragments from the slush pile
the trees will keep spitting their blue velvet breath into our mewling mouths
Oct 13, 2025
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Grace Kwan
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why i can't read the books i wrote
i created meaning where my brain insisted on it, or rather, meaning would appear to me unprovoked.
Oct 3, 2025
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Grace Kwan
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cockeyed to the moon
You feel a tug of closeness, ephemeral as dew, when you get to watch the way someone inhabits their body early in the morning.
Sep 22, 2025
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Grace Kwan
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honeyed water
What you thought was my trust was merely your own reflected back to you in the mirror I have in place of a soul.
Sep 8, 2025
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